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I have a win 7 machine hosting some xp guest os's.

been running for a while with usb serial ports fine.
Decided to change out to a PCIe 8 port serial card.
when i try to get virtualbox to attach to one of the new com ports it cant find them.
it will attach to the onboard com1.
I have verified I can use teraterm to connect and use the com ports, before and after i have tried to get Virtual Box to attach to them.
I have tried to reboot and attach immediately (no dice).

also what is this "D:\tinderbox"
I dont have a folder like that on my machine, I do have a secondary "D:" hdd...

any ideas?

relevant log section(s):

00:00:01.611
00:00:01.611 [/Devices/serial/] (level 2)
00:00:01.611
00:00:01.611 [/Devices/serial/0/] (level 3)
00:00:01.611
00:00:01.611 [/Devices/serial/0/Config/] (level 4)
00:00:01.611 IOBase <integer> = 0x00000000000003f8 (1 016)
00:00:01.611 IRQ <integer> = 0x0000000000000004 (4)
00:00:01.611
00:00:01.611 [/Devices/serial/0/LUN#0/] (level 4)
00:00:01.611 Driver <string> = "Host Serial" (cb=12)
00:00:01.611
00:00:01.611 [/Devices/serial/0/LUN#0/Config/] (level 5)
00:00:01.611 DevicePath <string> = "COM10" (cb=6)


00:00:01.747 Serial#0: emulating 16550A
00:00:01.747 VMSetError: D:\tinderbox\win-4.1\src\VBox\Devices\Serial\DrvHostSerial.cpp(1233) drvHostSerialConstruct; rc=VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND
00:00:01.747 VMSetError: Failed to open host device 'COM10'
00:00:01.747 AssertLogRel D:\tinderbox\win-4.1\src\VBox\Devices\Serial\DevSerial.cpp(1371) serialConstruct: <NULL>
00:00:01.747 Serial0: Failed to attach to char driver. rc=VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND
00:00:01.747 PDM: Failed to construct 'serial'/0! VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND (-102) - File not found.
00:00:01.753 ERROR [COM]: aRC=E_FAIL (0x80004005) aIID={1968b7d3-e3bf-4ceb-99e0-cb7c913317bb} aComponent={Console} aText={Failed to open host device 'COM10' (VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)}, preserve=false
00:00:01.761 Power up failed (vrc=VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND, rc=E_FAIL (0X80004005))
00:00:02.160 VRDP: TCP server closed.

"COM10" is not an acceptable serial port designation in Windows - for any application, not just VirtualBox. When the comm port number gets to double digits you are supposed to use a UNC device name, e.g. "\\.\com10".

"d:\tinderbox" isn't on your PC, it indicates the source code line (on the devteam PC/server) that generated the error.

Thank you I was not aware of the double digit com port designations.
all appears to be well now!

When I try to connect COM1 to my guest machine the dialog is greyed out, so no COM port at all is available. My host machine does have a number of double digit COM ports which of course I do not expect to see on my guest machine. But COM 1 used to work always, it seems like maybe this ability went away when I upgraded Virtual Box to a newer version, but not sure about that.

Please don't hijack this thread with an unrelated problem. Start your own thread for your own problem, and provide full diagnostic information.